"W. Kiernan" wrote:
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> What needs to be accounted for? For example, of a sample of a hundred
> men and a hundred women, imagine 40 men had one of these one-night
> affairs with one woman and 14 with two different women, while 16 women
> had the same kind of encounters with one man and 26 women with two
> different men.
I don't remember the exact argument. The whole article by Lewontin was important as a general critique of the pseudo-science involved in social studies grounded in such surveys. I'll try to look the original artical and the follow-up in letters.
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> That adds up with no logical necessity for anyone to have lied. Of
> course I also believe that _everyone_ who responds to questionnaires and
> polls about topics like that are all lying their asses off; at least I
> would.
Yes. This was part of Lewontin's argument also.
Carrol
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> Yours WDK - WKiernan at concentric.net